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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times a day are the bombs dropped on the village?

2. What else happened to Cambodians during the Khmer Rouge regime?

3. How old is Dara in Chapter 3?

4. What does Jantu look like?

5. From what direction was the sound that Dara and Sarun heard coming?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is hurt during the bombing of the trucks and what is done about it?

2. Cambodia's history dated back how many years to the building of what?

3. What does Jantu make for Dara that makes her feel better after Chnay destroys a pair of dolls Jantu made?

4. What do Sarun and his family do after their first breakfast in the camp?

5. What are of the stories Jantu tells to Dara?

6. What is the lunch truck?

7. What happened during the 1970s which led to open conflict in Cambodia?

8. What happens to Dara when she runs for help for Baby?

9. Why does Dara's family decide to travel to the refugee camp on the Thai-Cambodian border?

10. What two important events happened in Southeast Asia in 1975?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. What did Duoic learn from Jantu?

2. Why was it important which fork in the path the girls took on their way back to the base camp? What had Sarun warned?. Who decided which way to go? Which way was it, right or left?

3. What happened when shots rang out? Whose voice did they hear?

4. Choose two of the topics to write on.

Essay Topic 2

1. What was the lunch truck?

2. Describe the various things Sarun, Mother, Nea and Dara did to build a shelter.

3. Describe what Dara saw when she went with Grandpa Kem and Sarun to get the rice.

4. Choose two of the above topics to write about.

Essay Topic 3

1. Who was Chnay? Describe him.

2. Describe the first appearance of the magic marble. How did it become magic? What was Dara's first response to it? How did she feel about it at the end of Chapter 5?

3. What did Jantu make by the stone pillar? How were the things she made significant to hers and Dara's future?

4. Choose two of the topics to write on.

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